One night in the small town of Garfield , NJ, a fire started inside the local
sausage factory. In a blink the building was engulfed in flames. The alarm
went out to all the fire departments for miles around.

When the first volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the sausage
company president, Giorgio Tiracazzo, rushed to the fire chief and said,
"All of our secret sausage recipes are in the vault in the center of the plant.

They must be saved. I will donate $50,000 to the fire department that
brings them out and delivers them to me ."

But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. Soon more fire departments
had to be called in because the situation became desperate. As the firemen
arrived, the president, Mr. Tiracazzo, shouted out that the offer to extricate
the secret recipes was now $100,000 to the fire department that could save

them.

Suddenly from up the road, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck

came into sight. It was the fire engine of the nearby Lodi , NJ volunteer fire

department composed mainly of Italian firefighters over the age of 65.

To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine, operated by these